Alice Cooper
Studio Jam
For initial broadcast May 1 - 15, 1979
Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA
on April 9, 1979
01 Studio Jam Intro, From The Inside
02 Serious
03 Monologue Vincent Price
04 Welcome To My Nightmare
05 Billion Dollar Babies
06 Eighteen
07 The Quiet Room, I Never Cry
08 Band Jams
09 Wish I Was Born In Beverly Hills
10 Nurse Rozetta
11 Go To Hell
12 School's Out
13 Interview with Alice Cooper
14 Promo 1 & 2 WSAI-FM Studio Jam
This version is a pre-FM recording taken directly from the reel-to-reel tapes and presented as part of the Sam Elliot's Mustache Collection.
Flac files of wavs, PLUS a letter introducing the Studio Jam series, a page with Program Information, a copy of the Ad Slick for localized newspaper promotion, and the timing sheet. Apparently, there was also a "Promo Pak" on the artist but that is missing.
ABOUT THE BAND:
I found a print ad from another concert on the tour that lists some of the band, which was named The Ultra Latex Band.
Pentti Glan (drums)
Steve Hunter (guitar)
Prakash John (bass)
Davey Johnstone (guitar)
Fred Mandel (piano)
ABOUT THE CONCERT:
The Alice Cooper concert at the Sports Arena, San Diego, CA on April 9, 1979 was the source of several releases. The Studio Jam version was the first that I've been able to identify, with a broadcast window of May 1 to May 15, 1979.
King Biscuit Flower Hour did a broadcast with an air date of June 17, 1979 also sourced from the San Diego show. This was a 60 minute show distributed on reel to reel tapes, with a few different tracks from the Studio Jam version. The KBFH version adds "Only Women Bleed," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Wish You Were Here," "How You Gonna See Me Now," and drops the Interview.
King Biscuit repeated three tracks from San Diego (Go To Hell, How You Gonna See Me Now & School's Out) combined with songs from two other concerts (Los Angeles and Saginaw) on CD for broadcast on June 4-June 10, 1990 and repeated the same set again on July 29 - August 4, 1991.
The San Diego show is NOT posted at Wolfgang's Vault.
The Strange Case of Alice Cooper is a live concert video released in September 1979 on both Betamax and VHS, sourced from the San Diego concert. It was released on DVD in 2012 by Shout Factory. Several bootleg releases of both the video exist, and a CD bootleg named Mad House Rock came out in 1991. It adds one more song to the set, "Inmates (We're All Crazy)."
There's a Japanese CD bootleg from 2019 called San Diego 1979 Broadcast Masters (Shades 1028) that has the Studio Jam version, PLUS the King Biscuit Flower Hour version.
ABOUT THE Studio Jam program:
Studio Jam was a syndicated radio show hosted by Robin Winter and founded and produced by Charles K. "Chip" Altholz in Chicago. The show started out by showcasing in-studio performances, and a couple years later began to feature live performances recorded at various venues in Chicago. Some of the in-studio performances were recorded at Mantra Studios.
Studio Jam Radio Network was a 50-station radio network to produce and barter syndicated radio concerts in trade for airtime. They produced 24 in-studio live radio concerts featuring major rock stars for 17 Major Record Labels (David Bowie, The Police, Kenny Loggins, Styx, Triumph, Doobie Bros., Foreigner, Earth Wind & Fire etc.) They co-produced the concerts with JAM Productions Ltd., and Robert Pittman who later founded MTV.
Alice Cooper is the first show in the 1979-80 season.
I found an article in the Atlanta Constitution of May 11, 1979 announcing that local station WKLS-FM will carry the Studio Jam Cooper concert on Sunday May 13th. The program director claims "the series will feature Meatloaf, the Cars, Styx, Kansas, Bob Seger, Bad Company, Jefferson Starship, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, the Kinks, Yes and Eddie Money, among others...." He adds the series "will eventually be repeated."
I'm not sure how many of those shows were actually produced. My guess is that at least half of those were never broadcast.
I did find a newspaper listing that the Studio Jam Alice Cooper show was to be broadcast on WBCN in Boston on Sunday July 29, 1979. That's two months after the original broadcast window.
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